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Package: mplayer
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Debian maintainer,
On Wednesday, October 03, 2007, I notified you of the beginning of a review
process
concerning debconf templates for mplayer.
The debian-l10n-english contributors have now reviewed these templates,
and the proposed changes are attached to this bug report.
Please review the suggested changes are suggested, and if you have any
objections, let me know in the next 3 days.
Please try to avoid uploading mplayer with these changes right now.
The second phase of this process will begin on Sunday, October 21, 2007, when I
will
coordinate updates to translations of debconf templates.
The existing translators will be notified of the changes: they will
receive an updated PO file for their language.
Simultaneously, a general call for new translations will be sent to
the debian-i18n mailing list.
Both these calls for translations will request updates to be sent as
individual bug reports. That will probably trigger a lot of bug
reports against your package, but these should be easier to deal with.
The call for translation updates and new translations will run until
about Sunday, November 11, 2007. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or
changed
debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of
course, other changes are safe.
Please note that this is an approximative delay, which depends on my
own availability to process this work and is influenced by the fact
that I simultaneously work on many packages.
Around <DAY25>, I will contact you again and will send a final patch
summarizing all the updates (changes to debconf templates,
updates to debconf translations and new debconf translations).
Again, thanks for your attention and cooperation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- mplayer.old/debian/mplayer.templates 2007-09-23 07:21:55.231717618
+0200
+++ mplayer/debian/mplayer.templates 2007-10-18 08:58:15.662321323 +0200
@@ -1,82 +1,89 @@
+# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
+# team
+#
+# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
+# [EMAIL PROTECTED] for advice.
+#
+# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
+# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
+
Template: mplayer/cfgnote
Type: note
-_Description: Create your ~/.mplayer/config file
- Performance of MPlayer depends heavily on hardware - this means that
- it may benefit from tweaking options, for every single machine it's
- installed to. You may wish to read the documentation (it is in the
- package 'mplayer-doc', under /usr/share/doc/mplayer-doc/). This DebConf
- interface will help you setup just a few main features; you may wish to
- add to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf some more refined options (to enable
- multichannel audio, or video postprocessing, etc etc); and any user
- similarly may customize MPlayer using the file ~/.mplayer/config
-
-Template: mplayer/rtc
-Type: boolean
-Default: false
-_Description: Enable access to RTC?
- On older kernels MPlayer can use the RTC (Real Time Clock) to provide
- better timing in reproduction, with less CPU cost; to this end,
- though, the device /dev/rtc must be accessible to group audio, and
- the default max-user-freq must be raised to 1024. Any needed change
- must be done by root. If you wish, MPlayer will automatically do
- this at boot, so that any user can enjoy this feature. Note that
- there may be security issues with this (although none are known now).
+_Description: Detailed configuration needed for each user
+ The performance of MPlayer depends heavily on hardware; this means that
+ it may benefit from tweaking options for every single machine it's
+ installed on.
+ .
+ You should read the documentation provided by the
+ 'mplayer-doc' package.
+ .
+ Now, some configuration options will be set for the entire system in
+ /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf which may be adapted later. Any user can also
+ refine options in ~/.mplayer/config.
Template: mplayer/replace-existing-files
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Replace existing configuration file?
- There is already a file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, but it does not
- contain an automatically generated part. This script may generate a
- new file (the old file will be moved to
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.debconf-old).
+ An /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file already exists on the system and
+ does not contain an automatically-generated part. That file can be replaced
+ by a generated one (the old file will be moved to
+ /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf.debconf-old).
Template: mplayer/replace-existing-files-bail
Type: note
-_Description: Files not replaced
- It seems that you don't want to replace your existing configuration
- file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf. If you change your mind later, you
- can run "dpkg-reconfigure mplayer".
+_Description: Old configuration file kept
+ You chose not to replace the existing /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
+ file.
+ .
+ That file can be generated automatically later by running
+ 'dpkg-reconfigure mplayer'.
Template: mplayer/voutput
Type: select
Default: autodetect
Choices: ${vochoices}
_Description: MPlayer video output:
- MPlayer can use a very wide range of video output drivers;
- it will try to autodetect the best one, but you may choose a preferred one.
- Here is a guide to the choice (in decreasing order of speed):
- (1) if you see an entry that matches your video card, choose that;
- (2) if your video card supports 'XV', choose that (use 'xvinfo' to know).
- You should read /usr/share/doc/mplayer-doc/HTML/en/video.html (it is in
- package 'mplayer-doc').
+ MPlayer can use a very wide range of video output drivers.
+ The needed driver may be detected automatically or chosen manually.
+ .
+ If you prefer choosing the driver yourself, you first should choose
+ an entry matching this system's video card. If none match and the
+ card supports 'XV', choose that option (the 'xvinfo' command may help).
+ .
+ Please read the /usr/share/doc/mplayer-doc/HTML/en/video.html file from
+ the 'mplayer-doc' package for more details.
Template: mplayer/install_codecs
Type: note
-_Description: How to download binary codecs
- MPlayer supports most codecs out of the box and the rest with the
- help of binary codecs. Binary codecs are only necessary for Real 3.0
- and 4.0, Windows Media 9, QuickTime audio and some very obscure codecs.
- Debian cannot distribute these codecs, but these are available on the
- internet for download. Run the script
- `/usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh' to install those
- made available from MPlayer web site.
+_Description: Binary codecs download
+ MPlayer supports most video formats without additional software.
+ .
+ Additional video formats, such as Real 3.0/4.0, Windows Media 9, or Quicktime,
+ can be supported by using binary codecs.
+ .
+ As such codecs are not free software, they are not distributed with
+ this package but can be downloaded freely. The
+ '/usr/share/mplayer/scripts/binary_codecs.sh' script is provided in
+ this package to help downloading them from the MPlayer web site.
Template: mplayer/dvd_device
Type: string
Default: /dev/cdrom
_Description: DVD device name:
- What is the name of your DVD device (if any):
+ Please enter the name of the device for your DVD player, if any.
Template: mplayer/ttfont
Type: select
Choices: ${ttfontchoices}
Default: ${ttfontdefault}
-_Description: MPlayer OSD font:
- MPlayer needs True Type fonts for On Screen Display. Choose your favorite.
+_Description: Font for On Screen Display:
Template: mplayer/no-ttfont
-Type: note
-_Description: MPlayer cannot find TrueType Fonts
- You should install a package providing truetype fonts (such as
- 'ttf-freefont' or 'ttf-bitstream-vera' or 'msttcorefonts' )
- and reconfigure MPlayer (with the command "dpkg-reconfigure mplayer")
+Type: error
+_Description: No TrueType fonts found for On Screen Display
+ MPlayer needs at least one TrueType font for its 'On Screen Display' feature.
+ .
+ You should install a package providing such fonts (such as
+ 'ttf-freefont' or 'ttf-bitstream-vera' or 'msttcorefonts')
+ and reconfigure MPlayer (by running 'dpkg-reconfigure mplayer').
--- mplayer.old/debian/control 2007-09-23 07:21:55.231717618 +0200
+++ mplayer/debian/control 2007-10-15 07:17:35.113490370 +0200
@@ -19,30 +19,27 @@
Architecture: any
Suggests: mplayer-doc, ttf-freefont, netselect | fping, bzip2, fontconfig
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, debconf-2.0 | debconf, mplayer-skin
-Description: The Movie Player
- MPlayer is a movie player for GNU/Linux.
- .
+Description: movie player for Unix-like systems
MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO,
ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files,
- supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can
- watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies too.
+ supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can
+ also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.
.
Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output
- drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
- DirectFB, but also SDL (and this way all its drivers) and some
- lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64,
- Permedia3) Most of them supports software or hardware scaling,
- so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports also
- displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB
+ drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev,
+ DirectFB, but also SDL (plus all its drivers) and some
+ low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and Radeon, Mach64
+ and Permedia3). Most of them support software or hardware scaling,
+ therefore allowing fullscreen display. MPlayer is also able
+ to use some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the DVB
and DXR3/Hollywood+.
.
- NOTE: the .tar.gz distributed with Debian does not contain all of the upstream
- code. Read README.Debian and copyright for details.
+ Not all of the upstream code is distributed in the source tarball.
+ See the README.Debian and copyright files for details.
Package: mplayer-doc
Architecture: all
Recommends: mplayer
Description: documentation for MPlayer
- MPlayer is a movie player for GNU/Linux.
- .
- This package contains the documentation.
+ This package contains the documentation for MPlayer, a movie player for
+ Unix-like systems.
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